Name: Butter Chicken - Delicious
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 lb Boneless chicken (cut in small pieces); 2 nos Onion (cut into cubes, small); 1 tbsp Ginger paste; 1 tbsp Garlic paste; 1 tsp Chilli powder; 1 tsp Coriander powder (optional); 1 tsp Pepper powder; 3 nos Tomatoes (ripe and red); Oil for frying chicken; 3 - Butter; 1 tbsp Tomato ketchup; Fresh cream or Half and half; Salt (As reqd); Sugar (A pinch); Kasuri methi(crushed) (A hand ful, Dried fenugreek leaves); 15 cashew nut broken into small pieces

Butter Chicken - Delicious

Butter Chicken- I have tried several recipes for this, but this is the one which was easier and the dish came out tasty too, my family and friends just loved

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine North Indian

Servings people

Ingredients

1 lb Boneless chicken cut in small pieces
2 nos Onion cut into cubes, small
1 tbsp Ginger paste
1 tbsp Garlic paste
1 tsp Chilli powder
1 tsp Coriander powder optional
1 tsp Pepper powder
3 nos Tomatoes ripe and red
Oil for frying chicken
3 - Butter
1 tbsp Tomato ketchup
Fresh cream or Half and half
Salt As reqd
Sugar A pinch
Kasuri methi(crushed) A hand ful, Dried fenugreek leaves
15 cashew nut broken into small pieces

Instructions

Marinate chicken pieces with salt, 1/2 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste, chilli powder,coriander powder and pepper powder.
Shallow fry until golden brown.
In the same kadai, saute onion, ginger-garlic paste and green chillies.
When onions turn golden brown, add crushed kasuri methi, salt, tomatoes and cashew nut.
Saute for 3 - 4 minutes.
Add enough water and cook covered.
When tomatoes are well cooked, transfer to a blender and grind until the mixture is smooth.
:- Please make sure the mix has cooled before you transfer to blender.
Heat up a kadai.
Add butter followed by the blended mixture and the chicken pieces.
Let it simmer so that the chicken pieces absorb the sauce and will be realy juicy.
Add cream, food color (red),tomato ketchup and sugar for balancing the taste.
:- Do not add more tomatoes to get the colour because it will not give the red color and will be more sour.
:- Goes well with hot naan, chappathi, roti, or even ghee rice.

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Butter Chicken – Delicious